RICCIE So who phones? And low can we 'MOLLY BOLT American, true-blue gay and proud of it!"
Rubyfruit Jungle's back cover. *A novel about being different and loving it!' sickeningly coy Capital Radio advert.
Worse still, the front cover features two long haired women embracing in the centre of a blooming white flower. what have they done to you?
this widely discussed novel.
Publisbed for the first time in this March Rubyfruit Jungle was launched into the newly discovered highly lucrative feminist" market. Corgi say that to their surprise the They worried about first, Happily it's now seling berter than an average popular Wila rood tant pune sa paperback, Originally published in the United States in 1973, it became a 'leshian cult notel', Imported into rhis country hy the alternative Compeadium. acion Moverent loved and treasured it No feminist bookshell is ically complete without it Now It's hit the big time: the nass market Carrie's husband bas syphilis and unable to have him, She adopt» Molly. I thought you Minte ate melt Couperid Infuriated by Molly': unfentinine and Clever behavper Carrie tell her she B Weilti ato, Worcied but utrepentaot ny reuect 1 really cont care. 1 pot myself born, that's what counts. I'm here.
Molly, independent, rong, cynical a survivor. Molly, who on second reading is jast a bit too crude, too strang, too good to he true. Molly who neser compromises, never sells out and and somehow always keeps on lighting. Molly, an archetypal hero in a story book adventure.
When making love to women Molly thinks of their genitale as a rubytrus Jungle, -eldaco treasrcs. witn sucaa postve description of women are trained in seif-hate, it is no wander CACI DELOBE SAVOE-SEINTE LUHE SLY For the book has given strong and brave and free no less, when all we have is the women-hating -TIELER HIMALL. 1 UE novels of tragic lesbians.
It has given us a woman who fought and while slogging away ar liberating ourselves Now we bave Molly who hits back every rosten shot fired at her: "Do you think you 're queer?" a best friend asks. Milly repliea t gs tate touce wEar eblazoned acoss my chest. coula always carve a scarlet 'L' 00 mg forehend... I dan't know what lam - .. an all annonces said the LESBIAN LINE 01-794 2942